The story quotes John Strauss, a veteran Indiana journalist who now runs Ball State's public broadcasting operation.Note: This story was shared with USA Today and other Gannett news media, and similar stories were posted by WTHR-13 and Fox 59.

Story notes that Kate Oberreich and fellow art students got together to draw during her days at Ball State, but they didn't call it a "Monster Drawing Rally." "It was, 'Come hang out in my dorm room,' " said Oberreich, a 2005 BSU graduate who is part of the rally roster.

Indianapolis Star: Slain journalist James Foley was once embedded with Indiana National Guard

Foley, a 40-year-old freelance photographer who was embedded with the Indiana soldiers in Iraq in 2008, was beheaded by Islamic State militants in a video posted online Tuesday. In the video, a black-clad man said the execution was a revenge killing for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq.